viernes, noviembre 05, 2010

Diario dun vi-king VI: Incorporacións e detalles

O pasado viernes tivo lugar un gran acontecemento na historia de Mileth, por fin deuse un ensaio cun batería real. E non un batería calquera, senón que alguén con experiencia e tablas coma o é Juanjo. Esperemos que teña paciencia cuns noobs coma nosoutros e non se nos vaia, que un batería así éche difícil de pillar :P
Por certo vaia sorpresa que se soubera todos os temas case á perfección e que nos dera paos a nós por estar tan "desenpracticados" XD
Por outro lado, a rapaza que sustitúe a Ida, Dana, estivo máis ben observando, xa que non se sabía moi ben por onde ían as cancións e a verdade nin sequera cheguei a oír ben a súa voz, esperemos que para a próxima se poida poñer ó frente alomenos nun par, e por suposto que lle guste, que ainda non o sabemos moi ben :D
O ensaio do outro día foi un pouco desastre, pero xa sabemos cómo son as primeiras veces, a cousa ten que ir mellor canto máis se toca. Fai 10 días ensaiamos sólo os guitarras e baixo e non tocábamos xuntos desde xunio ou xulio, e foi tamén bastante desastre. Eu nin sequera practicara as cancións por mín mesmo nese tempo de descanso, así que... XD
Outra cousa que nos perdeu moito ós habituales foi a ausencia de teclados. Parece que non, pero eu incluso os utilizaba para non perderme, tal vez estaba moi acostumbrado a que sonaran e sempre levaran o tempo perfecto que facía a nosa batería informática... . Pode que por eso a terceira orixinal de Mileth terá que esperar a ser rematada: temos que aclimatarnos durante un par de ensaios máis uns a outros. Unha pena que sexan cada tanto tempo...

O proxecto de black-death colleu unha forma prometedora. O primeiro ensaio co novo guitarrista fora un pouco toma de contacto, pero no segundo, e partindo de cero (creo que foi mellor que aproveitar riffs soltos meus dos outros ensaios), a cousa púxose moi interesante. O outro rapaz leva anos dedicándose a esto e ten un equipo profesional de manda carallo! De feito, logo de ver a miña guitarra que se está caendo a cachos, dixo: "mellor cóllete unha das miñas, así ademáis estamos "entuneados"". Aparte, o que eu entendo de guitarras é nulo (xa vos imaxinades a miña cara cando me estaba "esta es una Jackson blabla de doble blabla... e eu "sisi.. mola mola" XDD", pero mamaíña, eso sonaba de vicio, ata parecía que os riffs salían sólos!
Para este grupo tamén aconsellei a Elías, que se uneu de boa gana, él sempre se apunta a todas! e aproveitando que o anterior se lles foi con outro grupo que estaba de parón e se reactivou, veuse con nós a montar ruído.
Do que me estou dando cuenta con eles é que dentro da miña cabeza sólo teño black metal XD vaia trve do carallo que son XD ... porque me decían "intenta algo máis death" e non sabía por ónde salir. O outro guitarrista en cambio está moi influenciado polo Thrash-Groove sepulturero e máis recentemente polo melodeath, así que pode resultar unha mezcla curiosa. O único sobre o que teño dudas é sobre a creación. Penso que ou debería haber un acordo case simbiótico entre varios ou deixarlle un % maior do proceso de creación a un, e logo os outros opinar. Máis ou menos eso é o que facemos en Mileth.
Creando sobre a marcha como o fixemos pode resultar un final de colagge. Como diferentes cousas empastadas para que sone ben, e que realmente poida que sone ben en riffs separados, pero tal vez haxa que buscar máis unión entre as partes para crear algo sólido. De todos xeitos, estamos empezando, e haberá que ver por onde vai a cousa.
O que sí, o outro guitarrista, dixo que a un ritmo de 1 ensaio por semana, tardaríase normalmente coma 1-1'5 anos en facer un concerto. Eu fíome del, así que é probable que eu me vaia antes deso (esperemos acabar a carreira, e logo veremos onde vamos, pero en Vigo véxoo complicado). Así que non tocará desta vez facer concertos, e, a verdade, non me vexo. Non me gustaría dar un ensaio-concerto, preferiría levalo ben co grupo que fora, a verdade.

Por último, hai novidades en canto a Enuma Elis. A idea xeral do disco está prácticamente rematada e dividida en capítulos. Estaba diante dos meus ollos a medida que o facía, e só tiven que unir cabos para cazar e ordenar as palabras e as ambientacións.
Sobre o disco poido decir que vou facer caso omiso a todos os consellos que a xente me suele decir (que moitas veces son contradictorios XD). Vou liberar unha vez máis o subconsciente e deixalo actuar, creando cun orden abstracto en certas partes, e intencionadamente organizado para un par de cousas -Ainda que non moito XD-. No fondo, se quero plasmar o que está na miña cabeza, ten que ser desestructurado e abstracto na maior parte.
De momento poido adiantar o nome dalgunhas cancións: "Visións - O Espello Deformador" de 2 partes, "Ira Contida (Tralas Rosas da Perdición)", que poidestes oír no anterior post, "Subconsciente Rebelión", "Insomnio", "Capita Mortua", "Katarsis"... estará por decidir o número, pero variará entre 9 e 11 cancións, e a media de duración promete ser coma o anterior "Obscura Epica", alternando entre as de 7-10 minutos e de 1-2-3, no que combino todo o ben que poido os estilos que máis me gustan (ainda que moi distintos) intentando facer algo que sone máis ou menos diferente e compacto.
O diseño levarao nun 100% Airi esta vez cunhas poucas directrices miñas que teño en mente, así que non poido decir nada sobre cómo vai ser, sólo que vai ser diferente (ou eso pretendo).
Tamén pensarei, ainda que esto non será ata última hora, se facer unha das cancións a modo de guitarras reales e voz real. Agora que meu irmán se comprou un aparato que simula un ampli no ordenador e parece que se pode grabar, mirarei a ver se poido darlle uso. No tema das voces, alternaría un servidor cun máis profesional co que xa teño falado. Sería unha gran nova se se dese realizado, e todo un paso cara adiante en canto a sonido.
Coma último detalle do novo lanzamento, que non se estrenará nas vosas salas e disqueras preferidas (ou sexa, no meu blog XD) ata posiblemente o segundo trimestre do 2011, decir que o título está tamén escollido: "Sons & Demos".
E como me sabe mal deixar este "diario" sen ningún documento gráfico ou sonoro, e sabendo que é probable que deixe esta sección durante un tempo ata novas máis interesantes, déixovos un extracto de "Visións - O Espello Deformador", concretamente os 2 últimos minutos da 1ª parte da canción. Xa me diredes se vos gusta ou no ;D

miércoles, octubre 20, 2010

Bizarradas Musicales: De Infernali

Xusto este mes se reeditou unha das bizarradas que me tocou oír xa fai moito tempo, por aló do 97!
Non sei qué amigo me deixara este álbum no que participaban eminencias do metal extremo nórdico facendo algo máis Ambient. Esas estrelas non eran outros que Jon Nödtveidt e Dan Swano, que colaboraba nunha canción. Pois ben, sería curioso ver qué farían estes homes fóra do seu mundillo habitual, e... a decepción foi monumental. Non é que sexa un amante do dark ambient/industrial ambient, pero poido oír cousas por ahí sen problema.

Por suposto olvidádevos de Dissection e Edge of Sanity, eu diría que máis ben vos metérades a xogar á un xogo de acción na Super Noentiendo ou Mega dryf con esto de fondo.
A min recórdame ás cancións techno que eu mesmo facía co Impulse Tracker para ir probando dunha forma rápida instrumentos e efectos (que tamén empecei sobre esa época) XDD

Non sei moi ben qué tería na cabeza Nödtveidt ó facer este disco... Por ahí lín que era un proxecto compartido co seu compañeiro de habitación, un tal Damien ou Damian. Non sei qué se fumarían os dous nos ratos libres, pero esto é bastante avergonzante. E logo está a colaboración de Dan Swano, algo que queda como nota curiosa e do que supoño que tempo despois se retractaría XD

1. Into The Labyrinths Of Desolation 5:08
2. Ave Satan 04:31
3. Orcus Cursus 04:37
4. Sign Of The Dark 05:40
5. Revival / Paroxysmal Winds / Forever Gone 06:27
6. Atomic Age 04:09
7. Liberation 01:51
8. X 01:41

-"Into the Labyrinths of Desolation" podería ser un comenzo digno para un álbum de ambient.
-"Ave Satan" é coma se alguén se lle ocorre facer en midi unha versión satánica da banda sonora de Mortal Kombat con toques da BSO de "Viernes 13".

-"Orcus Cursus" é unha peza ambiental que... non está mal (por non decir outra cousa)
-"Sign Of The Dark" é a canción cantada por Dan Swano, a mín recórdame a algún grupo de pop electrónico ochentero (Depeche Mode, Black,...) tamén mezclado coa banda sonora de Mortal Kombat...pero a de supernintendo.. ou case que a de Game Boy? XDD
-"Revival / Paroxysmal Winds / Forever Gone" pode fácilmente evocar a Sorgens Kammer, a do Stormblast orixinal que fora plagio doutra.
-"Atomic Age".... e aquí chega Paco Pil ou Chimo Bayo. Dá ganas de soltar un "bombas bombas" polo medio da canción. Podería valer perfectamente como banda sonora do Final Fight ou Streets of Rage.
-"Liberation" e "X" son pezas testimoniales da decadencia do mundo... despois de escoitar este bodrio.


Descarga
Pass: www
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E xa sabedes "
Remastered and re-released by Metal Mind Records in October 2010 in a digipack edition limited to 2000 hand-numbered copies."

A correr se non queredes quedarvos sen ela!

miércoles, octubre 13, 2010

Bizarradas musicales: Mezclas impensables

Coma moitas veces, por medio de comentarios de outros e casualidades interneteriles, un acabase encontrando cousas que nunca pensaría que existirían. O caso que toca hoxe son esas mezclas frikis provocadas por horas de aburrimiento, mezclando "voces" surrealistas e impensables e música metal, case sempre relacionado co death metal-grindcore-hardcore-punk polo que levo visto. Igual tades un pouco perdidos con esto que vos dixen, pero o mellor é sempre poñerse con exemplos e listo.

De primeiro temos a Slothian, grupo que mezcla os deformes berros e comentarios daquel simpático e inolvidable personaxe dos Goonies con Grindcore:

http://www.myspace.com/slothianband




Segundo eles (mellor dito él):
"
When the planets were in glu glú and the prophets cum on the chiqui chiqui bang bang. Where the retarded goom grew as soon as the sun sent in the soul... ya.
In the early beginning... y eso. I am tríki to say that the galactic cowboys are my friends, and Sloth and Gordy created the slumber abnormal impurity of ancient butifarra´s clown. "All is full of shit" said the Master Gugufresa (Sloth) when he turned to eeehhhh...? So, the Retardeath Metal was created, and the gods cried a lot of Kalimotxo´s tears, between the throne of eternal frost and hate, and the golosinas castle of depravation. Soy sunbornal
"

(sí, é un tío español, ó igual que o seguinte)

Chiquigrind
Como podedes intuír, Chiquito con Grindcore, jaarl!

http://www.myspace.com/chiquigrind



Según o grupo:
"After a silence, and after discovering the great world Grind escene, in 2006 I decided to create an extreme project... So, Chiguigrind was born!!! After the pain!!! Quietorl!!!"

Caninus
Este grupo surxe da furiosa unión entre 2 pitbulls e o death-grind máis pesado! Impresionante! Oíde "Victim of Pain"!

http://www.myspace.com/caninus


Segun eles:
"
The band, Caninus (pronounced K - 9 - us ) began listening Terrorizer, Death of Napalm, Corpse Cannibal, Sorcery, Incantation and Malevolant Creation. The band(orchestra) was generated in New York in 1992, but not until recently, when Caninus(orchestra) began receving national glory and approval of a celebrities from Andrew W.K. to Susan Sarandon. After the few line up changes (replacements) during 90-s', Caninus has strengthened their line up in 2001. A little from members of the profit also have gone, the few have gone to prison, some are alive albeit in the bottom of Grand Central terminals of Station. One ex-Caninus member can be noticed in the documentary film concerning the mole people "Dark Days". The majority grindcore and fatal metal strips (orchestras) have the singers, trying to sound similarly to the broken (upset) deranged animals anyhow so they have decided to use a real thing. Vocals are executed by two pit bull terriers. Both were rescued days before euthanization from refuges. Caninus - all strict vegans.
It has come time really to allow the animals to have their say.
"

Hatebeak
Aquí poderemos conocer ó que probablemente sexa o único loro frontman dun grupo de grindeath!

http://www.myspace.com/beak666


Segundo eles (ainda que é unha páxina dun fan):
"Ok. This is a fan site for HATEBEAK. If you don't know the story, this is a death metal grindcore band that has an avian vocalist. It's sick as hell and definately worth the listen. Hatebeak is on Reptilian Records, and has a split on Relapse Records. Here is the discography so far:
Hatebeak and Longmont Potion Castle (Reptilian Records split)

Hatebeak and Caninus (Reptilian Records split)

Hatebeak and Birdflesh (Relapse Records split)

To be released on Reptilian Records soon:
Number of the Beak (Reptilian Records full)"

Fai tempo encontrárame con outro "grupo" chamado Eugenio))) que mezclaba chistes de Eugenio con drone-doom ó estilo de Sunn O))) pero deberon de eliminar o myspace.

sábado, octubre 09, 2010

Bizarradas musicales: Xardas

Xardas é un grupo alemán que por ahí definen como: Progressive/Symphonic/Modern Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore. Toma ya!
A cousa é que poñendose a buscar datos sobre estes individuos non se pode atopar absolutamente NADA! Sólamente se sabe que nalgúns blogs está dispoñible para a súa descarga un disco seu do 2010 chamado "Mirror Of The Soul". Cando un vé o listado de cancións intúe que a cousa non será moi duradera... 2 +2 +3+... =30 minutos?:
1. Intro 2:01
2. A Cut 2:53
3. Ships 3:20
4. Falling 2:53
5. Promise 3:13
6. Revolution 2:50
7. Creed 3:56
8. My Dreams 4:08
9. Outro 0:58



Descarga: Xardas - Mirror of the Soul

Hei de dicir que cando me propuxen oílo, non puiden decir que estivera nin ben nin mal... había cousas que sonaban bastante ben, cantante femenina, cantante de black-metalcore (existe eso?) e moitos sintetizadores... ah pero ahí chegamos a Revolution. Revolution? Crematory? Non, non é! ou sí? nah, non sona mal... quizáis unha versión... deixémolo tar... algo así como pop-techno-metal.. non tá mal..
Peeeeero hoxe oíno outra vez co meu irmán, e propuxémonos saber algo máis deste grupo. O que fixemos foi coller extractos das letras de cada canción... e sorpresa!!!
Todas!! Todas!! Todas as cancións son... xa non versións, senón que son cancións existentes pasadas por filtros e "aceleradas" informáticamente!!!
E eso non é o peor... a mín non me sonaban mal cando as poñía... porque non me recordaban a ningunha canción en especial, sempre che veñen cousas de outros pero eso xa me pasa moi a menudo con todo o que escoito (salvo o caso de Crematory que mencionei)... aih pero cando soubemos cales eran as orixinales... xa poden vir os Menagüer e acabar connosco!
Emocore!!?!?!
Jaarlcore para nenitas bailongas?!?!
Ademáis non se cortan en cambiarlles os títulos a algunhas delas (supoño que para non dar moito o cante)
Vamos cos cuerpos dos delitos:

"Falling" por Xardas:


"Falling Behind" de Dead by April


"Ships" de Xardas


"Take One Last Breath" de Abandon All Ships (mirando este video é imposible de reprimirse un ó ver o "headbanging harcorero-teenager" XDD sempre pensei que, ó igual que no Nu-Metal, eses saltitos e muelles de pernas abertas son debidos á incapacidade e frustración de non poder facer auténtico headbanging con greñas (debe ser que as súas mamás non lles deixan levar o pelo largo)



Así temos que:
1. Intro 2:01
2. A Cut 2:53 é versión acelerada de "A Cut Above" de Avery Watts
3. Ships 3:20 é versión acelerada de "Take One Last Breath" de Abandon All Ships
4. Falling 2:53 é versión acelerada de "Falling Behind" de Dead by April
5. Promise 3:13 é versión acelerada de "A Promise" de Dead by April
6. Revolution 2:50 é versión acelerada de "Revolution" de Crematory
7. Creed 3:56 é versión acelerada de "Greed" con G de "Gañanes" de Crematory
8. My Dreams 4:08 é versión acelerada de "Sweet Lilith of My Dreams" de Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
9. Outro 0:58
Con este panorama o máis probable é que tanto a Intro como a Outro sexan tamén versións aceleradas de algúnha outra canción...


Xardas, heivos dar Mirror polo cú! Aparte de copiar e acelerar cancións existentes cambiándolles incluso os nombres para parecer orixinales, acabastes por vilipendiar a miña virilidade metaleira! Mal raio vos parta!

miércoles, septiembre 29, 2010

Así No: 29S

Así non, merecemos outros SINDICATOS

Así nos vai...

martes, septiembre 28, 2010

What did we learn in (erasmus) history lessons?

So!.. the period of my life attached to all that involves Erasmus is over. My year 2006-07 in Estonia and the 3 posterior ones helping in the Erasmus Vigo as tutor for newcomers has ended since they phoned me 2 times to pick some new erasmus students for this 2010 autumn and I had to tell the office to erase me from every list since I didnt apply this time for that voluntary stuff (you should fill a form to be erasmus helper, but this time they just phoned me without doing that).
When I first was erasmus I didnt know exactly what that meant or how would it be. After 4 years I have had enough "lessons" about this and got many conclusions. Good and bad, as I guess in every experience in life that lasts for more than few days.
I have learnt a lot in my experience in Estonia (many people even adviced me to start writing a kind of book, and it wasnt joking!), not just about studies and different ways of teaching (that were also quite interesting, in spite of what many close friends thought or might think), but also about life, human relationships, about cultures, and also about myself. The shock with all those things at the same time was so strong that I have had a long period time for recovering, assimilating, thinking and finally learning.
When you are Erasmus, there is not just the fact that you are going to study abroad. There is a plenty of new things that strike on you in many ways. Some people choose the easiest way, and dont care too much, avoiding any kind of thinking and therefore also learning, some others just seem to not to care about the new chance and challenging situation and they spoil quite a lot their time, though they might tell you -and in fact they believe- they squeezed to the maximum their experience (but maybe just doing the same things they do in their usual lifes more times or more extremely), others try to live at the maximum they can, forcing even situations that might finish as fake moments of fun, seems they accept the future fact that there will be nothing else than the day-by-day fun, and they are just living like that happily, and others try to get involved in the new culture and situation in a natural way, not forcing a personality they are not to be accepted, not caring too much if something goes wrong but without playing down the importance to the new relationships in the usual life, school, in the new culture they are discovering...
All these types of people are very different (and there must be more), and I met every kind. And many times you find out that so different ways of living this potential challenge called erasmus, may involve different, unexpected, misleading behaviours, interpretations or reactions.

Even that here in the Universidade de Vigo was not the same at all, I also assimilated and, more than learning, I kind of settled conclusions. Today I feel like sharing some of them. So this is what I learnt about erasmus in these 4 last years and that might be useful for future Erasmus people, though it's just a point of view, my point of view (of course this is valid just for people who really want to get involved and live in a highest grade their life as Erasmus; if you are going to spend all days yearning for the booze and the nightlife, there is no need for you to read anything of this):

  1. First, you are going to a place that you've probably never stayed. Get information about the customs and traditions, at least the main ones and learn a bit about general issues of the country you are going to spend your Erasmus time (usual wheather, social stuff, languages, a bit of history even,...).
  2. Try to learn the basic words of the regional language, local people use to appreciate a lot those little things. Just a "hello", "thanks", "my name is", might mean a smile in the face of the local ones that are talking to you. Even that you were speaking all time in english. Would be great that with time you could share some more words in the local language.
  3. Try to be humble and respectful and even dont talk too much at first, better listen when speaking to local people (I always remember a teacher that once told us "if you talk a lot, you will listen few, and listening is the base for learning (...)"). It's quite hateful when a foreigner comes and he/she thinks he is more "advanced", "clever", "modern". If you behave in that arrogant way in a place you are new, that tells few about you to everyone, and you will probably leave a bad impression (though I know this is a personal issue, but I believe so).
  4. You are going to meet many people that are in the same situation as you are: coming probably alone, and meeting each others at the same time. This might be a start for making new friends, from different countries, different cultures... Do not waste it going and talking always with the people of your own country, just because it's easier to talk with them or you feel basicly closer to them. There is a great chance to learn and make interesting friends that in other way you would never met. I personally dont get the point of making ghettos abroad, unless you are in a kind of danger or I dont know. This also depends on each one, but as I told to one spanish Erasmus that was doing like that in Estonia: "there are lots of spanish people in Spain, dont meet just them always, there are many interesting people". He didnt care at all about my advice, and later told me that "he didnt want to meet estonian people cause he wont see them again, and he would like to meet all the posible spanish, cause he "understands" better the way of being of people of his country". Stupid, cause then "dont go out of your country to make an erasmus, go to another university of your own country", I think.
  5. As I told, you are going to meet many people, and you will become very friend with some of them probably. Dont trust 100%. There are many people that goes there "living the day", having "friends of the moment" (what I told at the beginning), afterwards, when they are going back to their respective countries, they wont care about your problems in many cases. But they might contact you in the future to visit you in your respective town and country (...). I have had a terrible case talking about this, and couldnt believe it. People that I shared living, partying or chatting almost everyday, totally left me when we were already in our respective countries and I most needed advices, and moral supporting. Seems that this didnt stop them to write me later that "they would like to visit me and my town, and therefore we could talk again as in old times". As someone said once when"at the very end, if you have some problem, the only ones that will worry and care about you will be your family", I can tell you that "your real friends are the ones that after many years and quarrels are still your friends, they will care about your problems before the ones that you are meeting for some few -though intense, but few- time".
    Many people live their erasmus time on their way, as I told, they can be the friendliest, kindest and talkative people there, just dont trust they might be the same once they are back to their usual lifes. One very dear person to me in my erasmus told me once "I am a different person in the erasmus than now in my country, here I have my own life and own problems, that was just like another kind of world".
  6. Do not start relationships. It just wont work.
  7. Do not fear to make activities by your own or joining local people, even that they are not involved in university. It is probably even more interesting and you might really get even better friends than the ones that are Erasmus.
  8. Do not stuck doing the same. This is your year, you have the chance of making lots of things and most of them are stuff that you won't/can't do in your country. I have had a period that I just was waking up very late, going to school, and boozing/partying. Later I realized that there was much more world, I changed it, and it was much more interesting, I lived it on another level.
  9. Do not trust italian guys (I was recalling them when writing the 3rd point) , in general. My Erasmus friends in Estonia, my local estonian friends, my friends in the Vigo's Erasmus and students, me personally, and even my friends that met italians in some other way that is not Erasmus, agree. I have had too bad experiences with them -again in general-, I can talk good about 2 (I can say even the names, Ricardo and Alessandro, maybe Andrea as well but he is half portuguese) about 20 italian males I met in Estonia, and none or maybe just one that I met in 3 years in the help for Erasmus in Vigo-. The list of reasons is too big and they dont deserve my writings. Sorry if you are italian and you are reading this, but it's my point of view, we have been lots of times embarrased or angry about their behaviour anywhere.
  10. If you have a tutor, show a bit of gratitude with him/her. It's a voluntary job, he/she is spending his/her time to help you and not getting paid or anything similar. When I became tutor, I thought about how lost and confused I arrived to my destination and how helpful was to me that there was one person that was waiting my arrival to take me to a hostel at night in a town I knew nothing. That was so comforting, that I almost spilled tears when I saw my tutor in the airport (aitäh Eveliina if you read this). This is the main reason I became also tutor, they gave me that chance and I imagined how awful the newcomers might feel alone and lost in a new place. When I mean gratitude, I dont mean buying anything, sometimes a sincere "thanks" is enough. I still remember the polish girl that I helped in the autumn semester'09; taking her to univ, helping with bus cards, university, banks, phone, taking her to bars and pubs that I thought she would like to take also her erasmus friends (sometimes even places that are not so known between tourists, tho later Erasmus turn those places touristic -Bar Brasil-, cause I guess they like them and call others to go), and she never thanked me for anything or even told me the day she left. She even came back here months later and didnt call me. That shows quite few from her part to me. The next erasmus student I had was a normal person, but at that time I was already a bit upset with this Erasmus help, and was one of the main reasons of my fast leaving without thinking too much this year. Seems many younger people are not that aware or appreciate others' efforts or are grateful at all... I am realizing about that not just in this Erasmus world, but in general. I already see it in the ones 5-6-7 years younger than me.
  11. In relation to the University of Vigo, I've also learnt that there are loads of lacks in relation to the help to Erasmus and the International Relations Office. They are given a good budget from the University, and they are doing quite few activities (I'd say quite nothing), and the visits and trips are just crap if I compare the activities I had in a "relatively" average university as the TTU. Finally I can say that Tallinn beats almost in every and even in an overwhealming way to the University of Vigo (organisation, trips, dedication, work, treatment...). I talked many times about this in this blog, but once again I will say that I feel envy of the estonian organisation for students and also for tutors, cause they had vote in the decisions and they did more than just taking students from the station and taking them from flat to flat (as they just order us as tutors from the International Relations Office of Uvigo). I have never been invited also to show opinion about trips or work for them or even join students in their visits to museums or those short stupid trips of 6 hours to close towns where they "release" students to visit "what they want" and walk around like headless chicken (all trips I had were for days and with organized activities).
  12. If you are coming to the University of Vigo, know that many teachers dont know A WORD of english, so, it's better you learn at least the basic spanish. I have done even homeworks for friends that otherwise would fail the subject, and the reason was just that the teacher wanted everyone, erasmus or not, to write and talk in spanish in his classes (obviously cause he had no idea about other language). So, besides, I also found out that passing subjects is quite more difficult in this university apart from language issues. Many teachers dont care you are foreigner or not and they are asking quite the same level for everyone, and it is not easy. The average of years spent in university in Vigo -and I'd say Spain in general- is much higher than in the average of european universities as far as I've been told and seen. Though of course that doesnt mean we leave university much wiser, in fact we are one of the worst countries in relation to superior studies in Europe.
  13. I personally learnt to appreciatte more my own culture and see that many times those others you think they are much more developed, modern, pollited, kind, whatever, are not really like that and every culture has its lacks. Many times the shock is higher when you think that "x" culture is richer. Anyway I found their own good things in each one, and except that nationality I told before, I met good people in each, and sometimes, that they think or act differently than you doesnt mean necessarily that they act badly. Right now I value my own culture, the galician, my own language, and my own people much more than before.
I know I have written many points that are not very positive, but this is how I feel about this world. I have seen the best and the worst about this experience and lived quite intense in the past years all in relation to this, and I got my conclusions and my learning, that will be really useful for the rest of my life, as I'd like everyone learn and live through this exceptional experience that is to be an International Student. Do not hesitate if you have the chance.


lunes, septiembre 27, 2010

Volven Empyrium

We are incredibly happy to announce that EMPYRIUM, the most renowned Prophecy act ever, has decided to reunite and to record new music! Here's the official statement of Schwadorf on the reunion: "Since the rumours start to spread we think it's about time to make this official: EMPYRIUM is alive again! Our first new sign of life will be the song 'The Days Before The Fall' on the Prophecy Prod. compilation 'Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings' but we have plans for more! The spirit is back and it really feels right to us to start writing songs with EMPYRIUM again. We are not in a rush though so don't expect a full lenght today or tomorrow but we have the patience and faith to make this new songs outstanding and unique. Just as EMPYRIUM ever was...."

Fuente

Tal vez o auge de bandas últimamente do tipo de Alcest, Les Discrets, Amesoeurs, Agalloch (que ainda que do tempo de Empyrium, parece pasar por un bon momento de popularidade nos últimos anos), Wolves in the Throne Room, etc. que fan unha especie de "melancholic dark-black metal" ou incluso como oín chamar aos máis "modernillos", "shoegaze black", volven á actividade Empyrium, unha das míticas formacións de culto que se desfixeran xa fai uns anos, publicando o seu último traballo "Weiland" no 2002.
A pregunta para mín é clara: ¿farán o estilo dos primeiros discos, aquel dark-doom-folk-black metal, ou retomarán o dark-neofolk-ambient de cuidadas guitarras acústicas, piano e violín dos últimos traballos? Sexa como sexa, será interesante volvelos a oír.

Empyrium - The Ensemble of Silence (de "Songs of Moors and Misty Fields", 1997)


Empyrium - Many Moons Ago... (de "Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays", 1999)